The duck and the monkey

The duck and the monkey travelled the world together. Across oceans the monkey would perch on the ducks head, holding an old tea towel as a sail, to augment the duck's paddling. In jungles the monkey's tail would hold the duck by its legs, and they would swing through the trees.

Eventually they found their home, a forrested island in the middle of a lake in the middle of an island. Each day they would go for a swim then a swing, followed by a light supper of cheese and olives. A bedtime story would be read, then lights out, off to bed. Sometimes duck would sing an old duckish lullaby, on cold nights they would huddle, but on hot nights they were spread out, often only touching at one point of contact, wing to tail or webbed foot to furry hand.

They were happy.